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Monostroma grevillei (Thuret) Wittrock

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulotrichales
Family Gomontiaceae
Genus Monostroma

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Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland. . 22 Apr 2012. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (michael.guiry@algaebase.org).

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland. 03 Apr 2011. M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie). © M.D. Guiry.

Monostroma grevillei? Curragh, Co. Waterford, Ireland. 27 Aug 2010. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

New Quay, Ireland; to about 50 mm long spring plant. 28 Mar 1994. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Monostroma growing on subtidal mussel beds, Boltenhagen, Mecklenburger Bight, Germany, Baltic Sea. 22 Apr 2004. Dirk Schories. © Dirk Schories (dirk.schories@gmx.de).

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Cladocephalus luteofuscus (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Børgesen

Monostroma grevillei (Thuret) Wittrock New Quay, Co. Clare, Ireland; on lower-shore ledges; to 30 mm; with some plants of Spongomorpha aeruginosa (light green). A spring annual

Publication details
Monostroma grevillei (Thuret) Wittrock 1866: 57, pl. 4: fig. 14

Original publication: Wittrock, V.B. (1866). Försök till en Monographie öfver Algslägtet Monostroma. pp. 1-66, IV plates, folded scheme [= 14 figs]. Stockholm: Akademisk Afhandling.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Monostroma is Monostroma bullosum (Roth) Thuret.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Enteromorpha grevillei Thuret

Type information
Type locality: A locality is not specified. (Thuret 1854: 25). Lectotype: PC (Burrows 1991 Notes: The type locality is Finistère, Bretagne, France according to Burrows (1991).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Enteromorpha grevillei Thuret 1854
Ulva grevillei (Thuret) Le Jolis 1863
Ulvopsis grevillei (Thuret) Gayral 1964

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Monostroma grevillei (Thuret) Wittrock)
English: Green laver (Dickinson 1963).

Swedish: Strutsallat (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Monostroma grevillei (Thuret) Wittrock)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957).

Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Down (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Britain (Batters 1902, Newton 1931, Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Batters 1902, Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1949, Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989, Lindeberg & Lindstrom 2010), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Scagel et al. 1989, Miller 2012), Connecticut (Van Patten 2009), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001, Saunders & Kucera 2010), New Brunswick (Taylor 1957, Saunders & Kucera 2010), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), New York (Taylor 1957), Quebec (Taylor 1957), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

South America: Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

Africa: Morocco (Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001).

Asia: Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997), Japan (Okamura 1936, Yoshida 1998), Kamchatka (Klochkova, Korolyova & Kusidi 2009), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Bae 2010), Russia (Perestenko 1980, Kozhenkova 2009).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (Papenfuss 1964).

(as Ulvopsis grevillei (Thuret) Gayral)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995).

Atlantic Islands: E. Greenland (Pedersen 1976).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990).

Key references
Bae, H.B. (2010). Ulotrichales, Ulvales. In: Algal flora of Korea. Volume 1, Number 1. Chlorophyta: Ulvophyceae: Ulotrichales, Ulvales, Cladophorales, Bryopsidales. Marine green algae. (Bae, E.H., Kim, H.-S., Kwon, C.-J., Hwang, I.-K., Kiim, G.H. & Klochkova, T.A. Eds), pp. 7-52. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. pp. [i-v], vi-xii, 1-242, 101 figs. London: British Phycological Society.

Ding, L. & Luan, R. (2013). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus IV Chlorophyta No. I Ulotrichales Chaetophorales, Phaeophilales Ulvales Acrosiphoniales. pp. [i]-xxi, 1-173, pls I-VI. Beijing: Science Press.

Hollenberg, G.J. & Abbott, I.A. (1966). Supplement to Smith's marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. ix (xii), 1-130, 53 figs. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Klochkova, N.G., Korolyova, T.N. & Kusidi, A.E. (2009). [Atlas of algae-macrophytes Kamchatka waters. Vol 1. Green algae and brown algae]. pp. 1-216. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: KamchatNIRO Press.

Lindeberg, M.R. & Lindstrom, S.C. (2010). Field guide to the seaweeds of Alaska. pp. [i-]iii-iv, 1-188, numerous col. photographs. Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program.

Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

Pedersen, P.M. (2011). Grønlands havalger. pp. [1] 7-208. Copenhagen: Forlaget Epsilon.DK.

Saunders, G.W. & Kucera, H. (2010). An evaluation of rbcL, tufA, UPA, LSU and ITS as DNA barcode markers for the marine green macroalgae. Cryptogamie Algologie 31(4): 487-528.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Monostroma&species=grevillei

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Monostroma&Species=grevillei

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 07 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 20 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Chesnoy, L. & Jónsson, S. (1973). Etude ultrastructurale du développement du zygote calcicole d'une Chlorophycée marine, le Monostroma grevillei (Thuret) Wittrock. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de lAcadémie des Sciences. Paris. Série D 276: 299-302.
Jónsson, S. & Chesnoy, L. (1974). Etude ultrastructurale de l'incorporation des axonèmes flagellaires dans les zygotes du Monostroma grevillei (Thuret) Wittr., Chlorophycée marine. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de lAcadémie des Sciences. Paris. Série D 278: 1557-1560.
Jónsson, S. (1968). Sur le cycle ontogénique et chromosomique du Monostroma grevillei (Thur.) Wittr. de Roscoff. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de lAcadémie des Sciences. Paris. Série D 267: 402-405.
Kornmann, P. (1962). Die Entwicklung von Monostroma grevillei. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 8: 195-202.
Kornmann, P. (1962). Zur Entwicklung von Monostroma grevillei und zur systematischen Stellung von Gomontia polyrhiza. Vortr. Gesamtgeb. Bot., N.F. 1: 37-39.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:75220

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